LINCOLN NAME
 
  • The Lincoln Motor Company (also known simply as Lincoln) is a division of the Ford Motor Company that sells luxury vehicles under the Lincoln brand, primarily in North America.
  • Henry Leland, a former manager of the Cadillac division of General Motors, and his son, Wilfred Leland, formed The Lincoln Motor Company in August, 1917.
  • Leland named the new company after Abraham Lincoln, his hero and for whom he cast a vote in 1864.
 
 
FACTS
 
  • He was born on February 12th 1809, and died April 15th 1865 at the age of fifty six.
  • Lincoln didn’t move to Illinois until he was 21. Illinois may be known as the Land of Lincoln, but it was in Indiana that the 16th president spent his formative years
  • Nickname: "Honest Abe"
  • 16th President
  • Major Events While in Office: Civil War (1861-1865) and Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
  • Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis—the American Civil War—and in so doing preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the national government and modernized the economy.
  • His party was Republican and he was president for four years from 1861-1865, when he was assassinated.
  • Was assassinated soon after being elected to his second term.
  • His vice presidents where Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson.
  • His wife was called Mary Todd Lincoln, who was brought up into a very wealthy family.
  • Mary’s parents disagreed with her marrying Abraham because he had a poor background.
  • Abraham had four children, Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln, Tad Lincoln. Only Robert Todd Lincoln survived into adulthood.
  • Abraham was an unaffiliated Christian as he never officially acquired church membership.
  • He created a national banking system with the National Banking Act in 1863, resulting in a standardized currency.
  • He was the first president to be assassinated.
  • He had deep depression, even though he would frequently tell stories and jokes to friends and family.
  • He was the tallest U.S president at 6'4".
  • Lincoln proposed to Mary just one year after meeting her in Springfield 1839.
  • He was the first president to have a beard.
  • Lincoln, one week before his death, had a dream of someone crying in the White House, when he found the room; he looked in and asked who had passed away. The man in the room said the President. When he looked in the coffin it was his own face he saw.
  • Good Friday, April 14th 1865 at 10pm President Abraham Lincoln was attending “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s theatre, with his wife and two guests, but no bodyguard. Lincoln was shot in the back of the head at point blank range by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the next day, after never waking from the coma.
  • Originally Lincoln was to be kidnapped when he was attending a play named “still waters run deep” at Campbell Military Hospital. Booth had planned to kidnap Lincoln, hold him hostage to force the government to use their earlier policy of exchanging prisoners. However, Lincoln had instead organised to attend a ceremony at the National Hotel that night. Booth became furious at the prospect of Lincoln giving support for voting rights for black people. At this point, Booth changed his plan from a kidnap and hostage, to assassination
  • Lincoln was an accomplished wrestler - defeated only once in approximately 300 matches
  • Lincoln created the Secret Service hours before his assassination.
  • On April 14, 1865, Lincoln signed legislation creating the U.S. Secret Service. Even if the Secret Service had been established earlier, it wouldn’t have saved Lincoln: The original mission of the law enforcement agency was to combat widespread currency counterfeiting. It was not until 1901, after the killing of two other presidents, that the Secret Service was formally assigned to protect the commander-in-chief.
  • Lincoln lost five separate elections before being elected president.
  • Since losing his first race for the Illinois General Assembly in 1832 he had gone on to lose a race for the U.S. Congress, two races for the U.S. Senate, and one campaign for a vice-presidential nomination. He won the 1860 Republican presidential nomination after a tough battle at the national convention, defeating notable opponents William H. Seward, Edward Bates, and Salmon P. Chase, before wading into the four-way general election against Democrat Stephen Douglas, Southern Democrat John Breckinridge, and Constitutional Unionist John Bell. In the end the demographic dominance of the Republican Party gave Lincoln a victory, even though he lost every single southern state by a large margin.
  • At the Battle of Fort Stevens in 1864 Lincoln actually came under Confederate fire
  • The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on New Year's Day, 1863, freed all of the slaves in the rebellious states.  Legally, the Proclamation was classified as a military order and thus the responsibility for its enforcement rested with Lincoln, the commander-in-chief.
  • His Gettysburg Address of 1863 became the most quoted speech in American history. It was an iconic statement of America's dedication to the principles of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy.